Brad Meikle

 The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by Reuters and PE HUB as of 2000 GMT on Wednesday, March 11, 2015.

A ballot measure campaign to cut California’s public pensions will be launched in May by a coalition of politicians and business people led by former San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, with the state’s largest retirement system a prime target, Reuters reported.

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by Reuters as of 2000 GMT on Tuesday, March 10, 2015.

KKR & Co LP is in advanced talks to acquire Air Medical Group Holdings Inc in a deal that could value the U.S. helicopter ambulance company at around $2 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Blackstone Group LP has agreed to sell its 57 percent stake in India’s CMS Info Systems Ltd to Baring Private Equity (Asia) for $250 million, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by Reuters as of 2000 GMT on Monday, March 9, 2015.

Late last month I caught up with Doug Ryder, a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, for a discussion about what he’s seeing in the sponsor-backed deal market. 

U.S. buyout group Advent International is preparing an exit from German perfume chain Douglas and has asked JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs to organize a sale or listing, a source familiar with the deal told Reuters news service.

The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by Reuters as of 1430 GMT on Thursday, March 5, 2015.

Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, AlpInvest Partners, and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC raised a combined $710 million after Hong Kong’s second-largest broadband Internet provider, HKBN, priced its initial public offering at the top of expectations, IFR reported on Thursday citing people familiar with the deal.